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WALT:
Dividing Decimals
Use written methods for dividing decimal numbers

WILF:
Is the answer to: Is the answer to: Is the answer to:

Using a mental method Calculate 32.2 ÷ 14 Calculate 32.2 ÷ 0.14

work out:
Show your working out Show your working out
2.4 ÷ 6
Keywords

Equivalent calculation Estimate Partitioning

Repeated subtraction Short division Listing factors

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Starter:
Dividing Decimals
1 2 3 4 5
6÷2 10 ÷ 5 12 ÷ 4 15 ÷ 3 20 ÷ 5

3 2 3 5 4
6 7 8 9 10
36 ÷ 6 48 ÷ 6 40 ÷ 8 56 ÷ 8 81 ÷ 9

6 8 5 7 9
11 12 13 14 15
72 ÷ 6 35 ÷ 5 84 ÷ 12 132 ÷ 11 108 ÷ 9

12 7 7 12 12
2
16 17 18 19
91 ÷ 7 126 ÷ 9 60 ÷ 15 168÷12 0
165÷11

13 14 4 14 15
Sarah wants to share £175 between her 5 friends equally.
How much should each person get? £35
Tom wants to cut a 2.75m of pipe into 11 equal pieces. How
long should each piece be? 25cm
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Dividing Decimals
Examples:
eg1 49.32 ÷ 4 1 2 3 3
1 1
4 4 9 3 2

eg2 62.5 ÷ 14 rounded

to 1 dp
0 4 4 6 ...
6 6 9 = 4.5
14 6 2 5 0

14, 28, 42, 56, 70, 84, 98, 112, 126,

Exercise 1:
1 Work out the following without the use of a calculator.
a 36.2 ÷ 10 b 8.62 ÷ 4 c 166.88 ÷ 7 d 74.76 ÷ 12 e 144 ÷ 15

3.62 2.155 23.84 6.23 9.6

2 Work out the following rounding your answer to 1 decimal place.

a 8.3 ÷ 3 b 36.62 ÷ 7 c 30.5 ÷ 11 d 2.67 ÷ 12 e 36.7 ÷ 14

2.8 5.2 2.8 0.2 2.6

Mrs Smith wants to share £260.80 between her four

children. How much does each child get? £65.20

Claire gets paid £285 per week. She works 30 hours a

week. How much does she get paid per hour? £9.50

James needs to divide £1260.80 into 11 equal amounts. £114.62 and

How much is in each amount? two at £114.61

Mark: 10.7mi
Mark’s car travels 321 miles on 30 litres of fuel. Kate’s car Kate: 10.5mi
travels 378 miles on 36 litres of fuel. Which car travels
further for each litre of petrol? Mark’s car is
best
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Dividing Decimals
Examples:
eg3 5.34 ÷ 0. 6 53.4 ÷ 6

0 8 9
5 5
6 5 3 4

eg4 8.651 ÷ 0.15

rounded to 1 dp
865.1 ÷ 15

0 5 7 6 7 ...
8 11 10 11 = 57.7
15 8 6 5 1 0

15, 30, 45, 60, 75, 90, 105, 120, 135,

Exercise 2:
1 Work out the following without the use of a calculator.
a 5.4 ÷ 0.2 b 8.52 ÷ 0.3 c 9.24 ÷ 1.1 d 5.36 ÷ 0.08 e 28.08 ÷ 1.2

27 28.4 8.4 67 23.4

2 Work out the following rounding your answer to 1 decimal place.

a 26.53 ÷ 0.5 b 82.61 ÷ 0.6 c 4.952 ÷ 0.12 d 8.22 ÷ 1.3 e 6.05 ÷ 0.15

53.1 137.7 41.3 6.3 40.3

A 7.7m of rope needs to be cut into 0.5m equal parts.

How many full parts will there be? 15

1.5kg of oranges cost £1.80. How much does 1kg of oranges

cost? £1.20
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WALT:
Dividing Decimals
Use written methods for dividing decimal numbers

WILF:
Is the answer to: Is the answer to: Is the answer to:

Using a mental method Calculate 32.2 ÷ 14 Calculate 32.2 ÷ 0.14

work out:
Show your working out Show your working out
2.4 ÷ 6
Keywords

Equivalent calculation Estimate Partitioning

Repeated subtraction Short division Listing factors

Homework: Dividing Decimals
Work out the following, give your answers to 1 dp (SHOW WORKING):
1 273 ÷ 13 2 25.6 ÷ 4 3 350 ÷ 1.2

21 6.4 291. 7

Andy gets paid £238 per week. She works 28 hours a week.
How much does she get paid per hour?
£8.50